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Closures impact traffic overnight on Market Street, Saturday and Sunday on East Brainerd Road
Road work and water line repairs will impact traffic in the coming days around Chattanooga, according to officials.
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Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support
A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually "shuffle" ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board.
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Many states have backup execution plans, but failures still happen
Long before Christa Pike was brought into Tennessee's execution chamber, prison leaders reviewed and approved a backup plan detailing exactly what to do if the first attempt at lethal injection failed.
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How Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike unfolded, minute-by-minute
Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting.
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The drug used in Tennessee’s failed execution has come under past scrutiny
The lethal drug administered in Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike has been used in multiple states that carry out the death penalty and by the U.S. government after President Donald Trump resumed federal executions during his first term.
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School bus monitor arrested on felony child enticement charge in Whitfield County
The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office arrested a school bus monitor Thursday after investigators accused her of enticing a child for indecent purposes and failure to report suspected child abuse, officials said.
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Chattanooga police train nuclear inspectors in case of attack
As part of their jobs, federal nuclear regulators study how reactors work and how to minimize risks associated with radiation, and in Chattanooga, they learn about automatic weapons and explosive breach charges.
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Quantum coming ‘like a freight train,’ IonQ CEO says in Chattanooga
In a speech in Chattanooga, IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi said quantum computing is developing faster than the industry expected, echoing executives of artificial intelligence companies.
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What to know about Christa Pike and her failed lethal injection execution attempt in Tennessee
Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike despite administering two doses of a lethal drug in the state's death chamber, leaving her on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital in the following hours, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
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Tennessee lawmakers seek relief for farmers, loggers amid record-high diesel prices
With diesel fuel prices in Tennessee hovering near all-time highs above $6.10 per gallon, two state lawmakers are asking Gov. Bill Lee to temporarily allow farmers and loggers to use cheaper tax-exempt diesel to transport their harvest on public roads.
